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Post by pinky on Nov 26, 2008 13:40:15 GMT -4
"Lots of people talk to animals," said Pooh. "Not very many listen, though. That's the problem." ~Benjamin Hoff, The Tao of Pooh
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Post by pinky on Dec 5, 2008 14:22:32 GMT -4
God made the beasts of the earth after their kind, and the cattle after their kind, and everything that creeps on the ground after its kind; and God saw that it was good.--Genesis 1:25
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Dec 7, 2008 20:39:18 GMT -4
You can add this to the News Fader as the spirit moves you.
>> To the world you are one person. To your pet. . . you ARE the world. <<
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Post by pinky on Jan 16, 2009 0:04:27 GMT -4
The soul is the same in all living creatures, although the body of each is different.--Hippocrates, ancient Greek physician (460-370 BC)
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Post by pinky on Feb 11, 2009 18:49:37 GMT -4
Our task must be to free ourselves. . . by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. --Albert Einstein, German-born American physicist (1879-1955)
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Post by pinky on Mar 2, 2009 22:52:53 GMT -4
When a man has pity on all living creatures then only is he noble. --Buddha, spiritual teacher (563? - 483? B.C.)
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Mar 2, 2009 23:59:27 GMT -4
All these quotes make me think more on the vegetarian issue. Watching travel shows, such as Globetrekker, which seems determined to show us animals being butchered all over the world (while blurring out the "nasty bits" of even great museum art works!), makes me think more about it. A subject for another time.
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Post by pinky on Apr 1, 2009 18:49:17 GMT -4
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.-- James Herriot, veterinarian and author (1916-1995)
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Post by Hamsters82 on Apr 1, 2009 20:25:54 GMT -4
James Herriot--we have several of his books here and all of them are very good. The drawings in the books are good too.
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Apr 1, 2009 21:30:38 GMT -4
Just a few paragraphs from a long article in Wikipedia you can read on Herriot.
>> From a historical standpoint, the stories help document a transitional period in the veterinary industry: agriculture was moving from the traditional use of beasts of burden (in England, primarily the draught horse) to reliance upon the mechanical tractor, and medical science was just on the cusp of discovering the antibiotics and other treatments that eliminated many of the ancient remedies still in use. These and other sociological factors prompted a largescale shift in veterinary practice over the course of the 20th century: at the start of the century, virtually all of a vet's time was spent working with farm animals; by the turn of the millennium, the majority of vets practise mostly or exclusively on small animals (dogs, cats, and other pets). In the stories, Wight (as Herriot) occasionally steps out of the narrative at hand, to comment with the benefit of hindsight on the primitive state of vet medicine at the time. Among the episodes included in the books are memories of his first hysterectomy on a cat, and his first (almost disastrous) Caesarean section on a cow.
The Herriot books are often described as "animal stories" (Wight himself was known to refer to them as his "little cat-and-dog stories"[3]), and given that they are about the life of a country veterinarian, animals certainly play a significant role in most of the stories. However, there are a few of the stories in which animals play little or no part (particularly those about his courtship of Helen), and the overall theme of the stories is actually Yorkshire country life as a whole, with the people and animals being two of the primary elements that give it its distinct character <<
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Post by pinky on May 9, 2009 0:42:02 GMT -4
I am in favour of animal rights as well as human rights. That is the way of a whole human being. --Abraham Lincoln
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Post by Die Fledermaus on May 9, 2009 14:18:28 GMT -4
Interesting. Wish I had a citation for that Lincoln quote.
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Post by pinky on Aug 3, 2009 16:25:09 GMT -4
All of the animals excepting man know that the principal business of life is to enjoy it. --Samuel Butler, British poet (1835-1902)
I like pigs. Dogs look up to us. Cats look down on us. Pigs treat us as equals. -- Sir Winston Churchill (1874 - 1965)
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Post by Die Fledermaus on Aug 3, 2009 20:20:16 GMT -4
And I never eat pork products.
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Post by pinky on Sept 15, 2009 12:24:20 GMT -4
A kitten is a rosebud in the garden of the animal kingdom. -- Robert Southey, English poet (1774-1843)
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